DLA123-0004 Transcription
[in another hand] 1912
NALDERA,
BROADSTAIRS.
August 3 1912[1]
Dear Mr de Laszlo
I let Mrs Glyn[2] know that you would pay her the high compliment of painting her [5361] in Paris in the winter[3] and that you would only
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charge her the exceptional fee of 300 gs. She was delighted at this, and I am [sure?] when you see her you will feel that she is worthy to be added to
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your Gallery of remarkable women
Thanking you for your great amiability in the matter. I am | Yours ever
Curzon
I will tell Mrs Glyn to communicate with you as the time approaches
Editorial Note:
George Nathaniel Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, Viceroy of India (1859-1925); for biographical notes, see [3890].
For duplicate item, see DLA123-0099.
LR
15/11/2018
[1] Although Lord Curzon has dated this letter to 1912, and “1912” has been added by another hand to the top of the page, in a letter from July 1913, Lord Curzon appears to be introducing Elinor Glyn to de László for the first time: “A lady who is very looking in a picturesque way and has some fame has written to me from Paris and asked whether it would be likely that you would paint her. Her name is Elinor Glyn the novelist. She is not well off and I am afraid could not manage anything big” (see DLA0123-0005, letter from Lord Curzon to de László, 29 July 1913).
[2] Elinor Glyn, née Sutherland; married name Mrs Clayton Glyn (1864-1943) [5361]
[3] [5359] was completed during three sittings in Paris, 31 January, 7 & 9 February 1914, in preparation for the formal three-quarter length portrait [5361]. The war broke out, however, and de László, overwhelmed with commissions to paint men leaving for the front, was forced to postpone the painting of the portrait. It was completed in London in December 1914.